I’ll give you Byakko being too nice…but Claire?! Now you’re trolling. As someone who has played this at a high level, I think I can give you reasons why this game could be balanced or unbalanced. EVERYONE HAS SOME BULLSHIT that wins games.
Zelkin infinites that start from any regular combo chain. This on top of being the most mobile character in the game bar none. Every failed combo is safe if you learn how to flight cancel.
Rai-on one button infinite. Bad enough he is so fucking good in the first place. Add in the fact that rolling back on wake up against him is suicide because of how throws work in this game. I’d say he and Zelkin are fighting for the tippy top tier, possibly God tier.
Blood/Shaker can freeze time. And then they can hit you with anything for STACK DAMAGE. One command throw could spell the end of the round.
4.Vector…sigh. It’s Old Sagat all over again with robo armor and 3s elements. EASY hit confirm to 55% super. Couple this with how good his plasma field is for people who love to jump over lasers. Oh, did I mention he has the best backdash in fighting game history to make you want to try and approach him?
Bilstien’s plasma field makes his Down, Down+A1 and A2 super UNBLOCKABLE. And when you are in a plasma field, your space to run away is severely limited. Fucking thing has the most disgusting radius. And before some says “Just hit him!”, Bilstien gets super armor just for activating the PF.
Gamof/Gantetsu can take advantage of the aforementioned command throw property to kill you in 3 wrong guesses.
Kaede can kill you in one PF if you hit all of the right buttons at the right time. But I think that was intentional.
I could go on but this thread is bad enough already.
MY picks for most balanced FGs are 98um(I swear, I will tear any Krauser argument down) and Samurai Shodown 6.
lol at people thinking acho tournaments somehow do not count. or that the first year of a brand new game where it’s not fleshed out shows balance (“shown to be able to compete” hahaha). so stupid.
there is a HUGE basic difference here. Maybe after 10 tournaments in a row against the same players, the BEST cammy player still doesn’t have a realistic shot to win a big tournament where as the bottom 3 characters in VS have either won a big tournament or have gotten 2nd place regularly. ST is NOT as balanced as VS, its not even close.
another basic flaw. sf4 has been out for what, 3 years? and vampire savior has been out for 15 which means the option sets and matchups have been 99% figured out. Since sf4 is still pretty new compared to VS, that newness allows the game to be more balanced. If you give sf4 15 years of tournament play, there is no way all those characters are still competing on the same level.
ok then look @ recent american tournaments where the worst character in the game is winning nationals or getting 2nd place. It doesn’t really matter whether the game is played here or in Japan. Its just that in this case, the Japanese are better than the USA so if you want to see if the game is balanced @ a higher level, you watch the strongest players play.
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core wins this
Though Eddie and Testament were still really powerful, everyone could win, and Dominate, in Accent Core
Though I am a “Fighting Game n00b” still (got in the FG scene in 2008) I would say that SSF4 (not divekick edition) was fantastically balanced with only a couple of lopsided matchups, Everyone could win and realistically do well.
Worst matchup in that game I belive was Akuma-Abel or Seth-Zangeif
Good joke. The only scrub here is you for thinking that VS is even close to ST in character diversity and for playing a game where keepaway is shit because you can’t handle being kept out.
Keep playing on that pad because you’re too scrubby to learn how to IAD on stick bro.
Stop. Just stop. You’re making yourself look more and more retarded every time you post.
And double lol at the notion that using a pad makes you a scrub. If anything, being able to get all of your commands out on what most consider to be a less precise input device would mean you were BETTER at inputs wouldn’t it?
he made that clear long time ago when he pointed that there are only rushdown on the games that he usually hates, proving that
1st he doesnt know what he is talking about, and more than pronable he doesnt understand those games
2nd he only post made up shit for the sake of hate those games, and really likes to live in the ignorance
SSFIV is very balanced. Note that I haven’t said it’s a good game, because it isn’t, but the difference between tiers is quite small. Every game ever, even the most balanced ones, has characters that you will see more ofter than others. In VS, you’ll see tops like Sas, Talbain and Q-bee winning more often than Lilith or Anakaris.
The most competitive ranbat in Japan has a Blanka player amongst the highest ranked players. And I don’t think there are many more Anakaris players winning than Cammy players, really.
About OG KOF 98 and 2k2, yeah they are very well balanced. Again, you’ll see the tops more often than the rst but the difference between the tiers is smaller than most fighters, and I’d say more balanced than the revisions that wanted to improve their balance.
Finally, balance only really matters if it’s good balance. A balanced game that has to tone or dumb everyone down just to be balanced is a bad game (see SSFIV). Play style balance (variety) is much more important than character balance.